Chocolate maker, inclusioncraft pioneer, flavor creator, believer in slow chocolate.

Mackenzie Rivers: founder of Map Chocolate Co., and the Next Batch School

Mackenzie Rivers, the founder of @mapchocolate and @thenextbatchschool has been a bean to bar maker since 2014, and teaching the art and science of making chocolate to people around the world since 2016. Her mission for the Next Batch is to share her innovations, chocolate skills, techniques, and insights to help creative makers thrive in a big batch world.

  • Founder and host, Chocolate Maker’s Cacao Roasting Conference

  • Original creator of oat milk white chocolate and oat milk chocolate, 2017 (credited by Gastro Obscura and chocolate historian Sophia Rea)

  • Creator of Inclusioncraft™ structure and concepts

  • Named in Top 50 Chocolate Makers in US by food writer and journalist Megan Giller, of Chocolate Noise

  • Chocolate featured in VegNews magazine centerfold for plant-based vegan white chocolate, 2019

  • Article and shout-out as the first maker of oat milk chocolate and oat milk white chocolate, Cacao Magazine

  • Academy of Chocolate award winner, inclusion bars

  • Maker of the Year 2017; named by Clay Gordon

  • Guest speaker, using chocolate in coffee drinks, Specialty Coffee BLOOM event 2018, Portland

  • Feature essay article, Dessert Professional magazine.

  • Included in the book Bean to Bar: America’s Craft Chocolate Revolution, by Megan Giller